327 Quotes About Adults

  • Author David Walton
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    You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

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  • Author E. B. White
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    Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

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  • Author Evelyn Waugh
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    Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

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  • Author Martha Wainwright
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    I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

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  • Author Peter Weir
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    When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

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  • Author Randi Weingarten
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    Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

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  • Author Pope Benedict XVI
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    The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

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  • Author Lee Kuan Yew
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    Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.

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